Write every day! - March 2023 - Day 12

[zwei_hexen]

Tally:
Welcome post

Day 1: amedia, badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, nnozomi, ofmonstrouswords, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, torch, trobadora, vendettadays, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 2: amedia, badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, nnozomi, ofmonstrouswords, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, torch, trobadora, vendettadays, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 3: amedia, badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, nnozomi, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, torch, trobadora, vendettadays, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 4: amedia, badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, nnozomi, ofmonstrouswords, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, vendettadays, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 5: amedia, badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, vendettadays, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 6: amedia, badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, ofmonstrouswords, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, torch, vendettadays, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 7: amedia, badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, torch, vendettadays, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 8: amedia, badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, nnozomi, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, torch, vendettadays, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 9: amedia, badly_knitted, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, marvelouscity, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, torch, vendettadays, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 10: amedia, badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, torch, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 11: amedia, badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, cyberbrain, kate, lferion, ljm, luzula, regshoe, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, torch, yasaman, yhlee, ysilme

Day 12: china_shop

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ysilme here: 686 words for a blog entry.

sylvanwitch here: Today, I found an open call for magical realism short stories on the theme of women's transformations, and a story came to me all in one push, 1347 words and done. I've already edited it once, but I'm going to let it sit for a day or two before submitting it. I have found recently that if I find a prompt that speaks to me, the words really flow, and I have little trouble sticking the landing, which has been a problem for me for the past two years or more. I think part of the recent change has to do with the fact that I'm writing a novel, so taking a break to "cheat" with a short story feels transgressive or something. You know how if you have cleaning to do, you just have to find a chore you like *less* than cleaning, and suddenly you'll procrastinate that chore by doing the cleaning? It's something like that. Anyway, I'm going to stop examining the oral hygiene of this particular gift horse and just say: YAY! That felt really great!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

March 12th - 1000 words, a double drabble ands two quadruple drabbles.

[sylvanwitch]

Woooo-hoooo! *\o/* *grins*

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! *bows*

[shadaras]

Day 12: A couple short ficlets as exchange treats

[sylvanwitch]

Excellent! Happy gifting! :-)

March 11 & 12 check-ins

[the_siobhan]

Managed some more journaling today and some plotting yesterday.

Re: March 11 & 12 check-ins

[sylvanwitch]

Outstanding! YAY for journaling and plotting! I hope that feels good. :-)

[yhlee]

Yay blog!

Day 12: 1,500 words on YA book.

[sylvanwitch]

Woooo-hoooo! *\o/*

Ah, the motivating focus of a deadline! Lol! :-)

[chanter1944]

Tagging in for day 12. A handful of sentences and some editing, though I wasn't tracking word count. Oops on me.

[sylvanwitch]

Hey, words are words and they were made! The number doesn't matter to us so long as you're happy with it. :-)

[sakana17]

Day 12: 1281 words on the WIP.

[sylvanwitch]

OUTstanding! YAY! Wooo-hoooo! *\o/*

[sanguinity]

Mar 12: Words! Editing mostly, but words are words.

[sylvanwitch]

Exactly! Words were made and YOU made them! YAY! :-)

[kate]

Woo hoo 400+ words of new AU including a premise that works! (Yesterday's premise decidedly did not)

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for finding the right premise and making it into words! :-)

[amedia]

Day 12: a couple hundred words that helped me wrap up a scene on the current fic, and a comment on AO3.

Also, I finally got started on that con report—I typed in maybe two sentences but if felt really good to create the file and start working on it!

I enjoy reading about y’all’s daily accomplishments—the story today sounds like an exciting opportunity!

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for so MANY good things in your comment! YAY for that con report beginning its journey to becoming! You rock! :-)

And thank you! We like sharing our ramblings with you. :-)

[yasaman]

Day 12: got caught up in other things and then the Oscars so only a couple alibi sentences for me on the main WIP again today!

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for alibi sentences when other things are catching your attention! :-)

[regshoe]

sylvanwitch, wahey, well done on that story :D

Day 12: Fearful of the headache returning by evening, I had a writing session in the morning. But the headache did not return, so I did some more writing in the evening and managed a total of 1,050 words!

[sylvanwitch]

Oh, I'm super glad the headache stayed away! And THANK YOU for the kind words. Also--wooooo-hoooooo, that's an awesome word count! *\o/* Go, you!

[luzula]

sylvanwitch, congratulations! \o/ I do recognize that feeling--taking a break from my longfic and writing something short feels a little transgressive, but then that short thing will be written easily.

Did post-beta edits on chapter 26 of the longfic, and also got a good start on my unsent_letters_exchange fic. In a vain hope of not being completely obvious, I won't track the wordcount on that one.

[sylvanwitch]

I'm glad it's not just my brain that works in that particular strange way. :-)

YAY! for all the words you wrote into being today, editing words and exchange words and everything else too! :-)

[sanguinity]

In a vain hope of not being completely obvious, I won't track the wordcount on that one.

I shouldn't laugh, but I absolutely did.

[lferion]

12 March — a fairly random B2MeM drabble that, while a self-contained thought, doesn’t really stand by itself. Perhaps more will come to me from other prompts to go with it. And I still need to finish the previous one.

[sylvanwitch]

YAY for rambles that want to be more and for words in search of an ending! :-)

[cyberbrain]

March 12th writing: a couple of alibi sentences.

[sylvanwitch]

WORDS! We have WORDS! YAY! :-)

[ysilme]

Oooh, how exciting! What a terrific word count, I'm so happy you had such a good writing day and were able to write this story down in one go! ♥ I've had a similar experience once or twice when doing a last minute pinch-hit for a fannish exchange - I exactly know the feeling of words just flowing when the prompt is right. Actually that's what I'm doing so often with my drawer fics, just something I absolutely want to write no matter what, and then I might easily manage 1-3k in one go with a result I'm very happy with. I'm doing this mostly to motivate myself and get over dry writing spells, but also nilly-willy procrastinating for the WIP I should rather be writing. But I'm also well familiar with the kind of procrastinating you're describing - my laundry is never so up-to-date as when I'm having a writing deadline. ;op

[sylvanwitch]

Thank you, hon! It felt really excellent to just begin with a sentence that blossomed into a story and had no trouble at all finding its ending. And I'm glad it's not just I who put off one thing in favor of another, slightly less dreaded, thing. *grins*

*HUGS*

[china_shop]

Wow, you were both so amazingly productive! Go you! :D

13th: I went to writer's hour and managed 277 new words plus a lot of editing.

[elwendell]

stop examining the oral hygiene of this particular gift horse

I laughed out loud.

[sylvanwitch]

*grins*. Glad I could give you a giggle! :-)

[ljm]

Day 12: Didn't manage any work on my main WIP, but I did email three historical organizations about volunteer positions. So there's that I suppose.

[sylvanwitch]

That's AWESOME! Seriously, that sort of correspondence is always difficult for me, so I'm out here cheering for you writing not just one but THREE of those emails! YAY!

[torch]

A very grudging alibi sentence.

[ysilme]

But words happened, that's all that counts!
Please report your tally always on the most recent tally entry; I mostly don't go by notifications but only check the most recent entry, so might easily miss it otherwise. Thank you!

[torch]

I'm sorry if I messed up -- so should this have gone on the post for day 13? I'm not sure it was showing up on my reading page bf I went to bed!

[ysilme]

No worries, I caught it this time! :o)
I'm surprised the entry for the 13th didn't show up on your reading page, as it was posted about two hours before your comment; but I don't have experiences with entries and reading pages myself asI'm always going by notifications - perhaps time lagging mit happen there?
But yes, as we asked in our intro entry, no matter for what day you're reporting your tally, please always do it on the most recent entry to make things easier for us; just state the day(s) if it's/they are (a) different one(s). Going by notifications would in theory help me to not miss any tally comment, but the amount of notifications I'm getting (also for any reply sylvanwitch does etc.) is quite large, and I'm too tired most evenings to check them individually, but just go throught he most recent entry to get the tally entries together. The repetitiveness of reading and gathering the usernames every day also makes it easy to mix up things, and this has turned out to be the best method for me to do it.

[torch]

n/p, will do! I think I must have been lagging somehow... anyway, sorry to make more work for you! (have I said thank you for hosting yet?) Go write sth fun and pls don't bother to reply to this :)

[sylvanwitch]

Sorry I missed this yesterday! Go, you, for getting that sentence out against resistance! :-)